Occupation: Comedian Birth: August 4, 1941
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood an….
White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, es….
A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat..
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'.
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny..
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike..
Arizona has always been anti-black..
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself..
I'm as American as apple pie..
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you.….
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing..
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here..
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody..
Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43..
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, ….
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being….
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them..
An audience can be like a pack of wolves..
Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself..
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race..
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem..